Justice in 21st Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder (with Cristina Bacchilega, 2025) is dedicated to fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes, inspired by his always politicised view of traditional and popular narrative.  My talk, drawn from the book, looks at the chapter “Spirited Borders: Wonder Genres and Decolonial Hauntologies,” with examples drawn from Indigenous Canadian Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders (2021—Pluto TV, free with ads), Senegalese/French Mati Diop’s Atlantique (Atlantics, 2019—Netflix or Crunchyroll), and Iranian/Danish Ali Abbasi’s Grans (Border, 2018—Hoopla, free). These films deploy folklore, narrative, traditional culture, and wonder to render their worlds other/wise.

About the speaker:
Dr. Pauline Greenhill is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg currently specialising in feminist fairy-tale media studies. She has published on gender, sexuality, and justice in traditional and current folklore. Open Access books: Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity (co-edited with Sidney Eve Matrix, 2010), Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag (co-edited with Diane Tye, 2014), Clever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat: Fairy Tales from a Living Oral Tradition (co-edited with Anita Best and Martin Lovelace, 2019), and Justice in 21st Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder (with Cristina Bacchilega, 2025).

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Location: ED 2018 A

Date and Time: Monday, Sept. 15 at 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (NDT)

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